Issue: 2405
Dated: 27 May 2014
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We can exclusively reveal a secret government plan to unleash a torrent of raids on hundreds of workplaces across Britain. Named Operation Centurion it is a major two-week crackdown on immigrants without papers set to be launched on Monday 2 June.
The government crashed in the elections. But the vote hasn’t gone to the left, writes Simon Basketter
Labour is still the main home for those opposed to the government. But it leaves many voters uninspired.
More than half of Ukip’s supporters in the European elections came from disenfranchised Tory voters, a poll commissioned by Lord Ashcroft has found.
From classroom assistants to social workers, and from gardeners to engineers, up to a million local government workers are voting on strikes over the next few weeks after employers awarded them a pay rise of just 1 percent. Socialist Worker explains why Unison and GMB union members should vote Yes
Tommy Sheridan says independence can be the basis for radical change, writes Raymie Kiernan
Lecturers at Lambeth College are set to start an all-out strike on Tuesday of next week.
Nazi British National Party (BNP) leader, Nick Griffin, was booted out of the European parliament in election results announced last Sunday.
Cinema workers at the Ritzy Picturehouse in south London struck for the fifth day in six weeks on Wednesday of last week.
Campaigners in Barnsley plan to lobby the council on Thursday of this week to demand the reinstatement of free train travel for older people in South Yorkshire.
The PCS union’s annual conference took place between Tuesday and Thursday of last week.
Doncaster Care UK workers’ strike committee was set to meet on Wednesday of this week to decide the next steps in their dispute. The Unison union members have struck for 34 days since the end of February.
Activists in the Unison union took part in a day of action over pay on Wednesday of last week. In Portsmouth, union members leafletted workers at the city’s civic offices urging them to vote yes in an upcoming strike ballot over pay.
Construction workers took part in a series of protests on Friday of last week. The protests were part of a national day of action against “umbrella” tax scams.
Some 90 supporters of RMT union rep Mark Harding gathered outside his trial at the City of London magistrates’ court on Friday of last week.
A consultative ballot of 100,000 health workers in the Unite union was set to end on Friday of this week.
One million workers across different unions could strike together on 10 July. That would be a massive boost to the resistance to the Tories.
The NUT union has said it will “take action” with other workers on 10 July if talks with the government fail.
Organising maximum solidarity for the indefinite strike at Lambeth College will be a big part of the backdrop at the UCU union’s annual congress in Manchester this week.
Optare, a Leeds-based supplier to some of Britain’s biggest bus and coach companies, strike. TfL Dial-a-Ride workers to strike. London Underground power workers settle their dispute for more talks. Catering workers to walk out on East Midlands trains. Tyne and Wear metro strike suspended.
Workers at the University of Dundee are balloting for strikes to save jobs.
Workers at One Housing have voted by 88 percent for strikes.
The GMB union held a lobby of Bedfordshire council on Tuesday of this week.
The racist English Defence League called a “memorial rally” in Sutton in Ashfield, north Nottinghamshire, last Sunday.
Around 50 people joined a workshop organised by Egypt Solidarity last Saturday.
Some 180 people packed into Keir Hardie Primary School in Newarthill near Motherwell to hear Tommy Sheridan speak on independence last week.
Some 150 journalists working for Newsquest across England are to ballot for strikes
Refugee organisation Rapar and the Syrian Rethink Rebuild Society have launched a campaign against HSBC bank’s “systematic targeting” of Syrian nationals.
Demetre Fraser | Official quizzed over Hillsborough slurs | Joblessness led to suicide | Thousands of kids face arrest
Around 10,000 people, mainly youth, have marched against the Front National (FN) in France today, Thursday.
The government’s planned crackdown on undocumented workers is set to go ahead from Monday morning of next week. Operation Centurion was exclusively revealed in this week’s Socialist Worker.
Euro elections showed a swing to the left and a mood for a fightback, reports Panos Garganas
General Prayuth Chan-ocha officially took power in Thailand on Thursday of last week – and mass protests simultaneously erupted.
The victory of the Front National (FN) in the European elections will have a terrible impact on French politics.
Opponents of Egypt’s regime face repression but are determined to keep resisting, says Judith Orr
Petro Poroshenko, owner of Ukraine’s biggest chocolate company, is Ukraine's new president-elect.
John Parrington looks at what the work of Lev Vygotsky can tell us about the working of the human mind
The recent elections are the second to take place under the long shadow of the financial crisis, writes Alex Callinicos
Former prison inmates talk to Annette Mackin about the brutality of life in prison and how, despite tremendous odds, people fight back
Many claim that opposing immigration is not racist—but as Ken Olende explains, the scapegoating of migrants has seen racist attitudes in Britain shift onto new targets
Ken Loach spoke to Judith Orr about his latest film, Jimmy’s Hall—based on the true story of one socialist’s battle for freedom in a society riven by class
This love story, tense thriller, and political commentary by the acclaimed director of Paradise Now is set in the West Bank, Palestine.
Capturing the spirit of bullying and fear among teachers and pupils, this revenge comedy sets out to right the wrongs of your adolescent years.
This three-part crime series is based on novels written by Booker Prize winner John Banville under the pen name Benjamin Black.
This dystopian novel won this year’s Little Rebels Award this month. The book, aimed at readers over 12, describes how a financial crash in Britain leads to a nightmare.
The shockwave of Ukip’s success has put the mainstream parties in a panic. The Liberal Democrats are in meltdown and Nick Clegg’s leadership is on the line.
The shockwave of Ukip’s success has put the mainstream parties in a panic. The Liberal Democrats are in meltdown and Nick Clegg’s leadership is on the line.
Leading on a letter from a Romanian worker in Britain attacking Farage and including letters on supporting South African miners and the blatant sexism that exists in most of the press today
This week's Troublemaker leads on fracking and includes stories about ubiquitous royal parasite Prince George, faulty firm British Gas and bankers partying it up at the Chelsea flower show